Director │CHEN Shi-xin, WU Kang
Producer │CHEN Shi-xin
After the functional extinction of albino dolphin, the only aquatic mammal left in Dongting-Poyang Lake basin is finless porpoise.
A group of former fishing bully started to cooperate with volunteers in 2016 and set up a cooperative patrol team to protect the ecology, patrolling daily and checking illegal fishing gears, but also became a “traitor” according to their peers. In order to protect natural resources, the government decided to start a decade-long “fishing ban”. The old way of life is about to change. How can a person change from being a taker of resources to a protector and renewer?
Director │SO Ka-ue
Producer │Catherine CHAN
The challenge of severely disabled people living in a city has steeled Ah Cheung’s will to fight for the rights to quality and independent living. Living in a wheelchair all his life, he overcame poverty and became an advocate for the disabled rights. He was awarded the Hong Kong Humanity Award and Medal of Honour.
People in society generally know very little about the disabled people’s needs. A lot of them were afraid of being checked-in to the hospital and left alone with very little support in the ward during COVID period. Ah Cheung insisted on speaking up for himself and his peers, using every breath of his deteriorating body.
Before Ah Cheung passed away, he had just started an unprecedented project in Hong Kong – to establish a library run by the disabled, serving all people. His life journey will tell the development of disabled people’s rights in the city.
Director │ XUE Xue
Director, Producer │Tarik NÚÑEZ
In the heart of Beijing, we find a man who is painting with his foot, in impressive and detailed traditional Chinese ink paintings. Surprisingly enough we are aware that this man despite his physical disability can be self-sufficient and extremely agile to use all kinds of electronic communication devices and basic instruments of daily use that allow him to be independent. Not only in his personal life but economically and in mobility traveling around the city, from his home to his workplace, which is a congested subway station.
A story of self-improvement that inspires the motivation to never give up on dreams despite adversity. A look into the life of an artist while organizing an exhibition that seeks to change people’s perception of disability by being recognized as an artist beyond his physical limitations. The determination of a man for overcoming all obstacles and not limit himself.
Director, Producer│Hansen LIN
Producer │ Micah FINK
Coach XU is a rural Chinese teacher at a charity school in a remote mountainous area. Three years ago, at a county-level football match, his team attracted the attention of the national education community. With a round of matches approaching, XU establishes a soccer home to provide his teammates with more training and nutrition. XIE is a 13-year-old girl in hopes of becoming a soccer coach like XU one day. Wu, at 15, is the former captain of the Yuanbao team who has been criticized by Coach XU in her daily training for having puppy love. They all doubt soccer, yet love soccer passively at the same time. Along with the impression of being a tender and dedicated teacher, Coach XU has great authority when it comes to motivating the girls on the soccer team. As the intervenor in the children’s growth path, XU is troubled by his own vulnerabilities, doubts, and regrets.
Director │DAI We
Producer │CHANG Tzu-hisang
In the only gym on Matsu Island, in the tin room on the top floor, a group of wrestlers listens to the whistle of the barracks.
The film revolves around the Matzu wrestling team, and tells the story of growing up on the dank island through the coaches who returned home, the brothers and sisters who were born with disadvantage, the teenagers who were confused and disorganized about the future, and the three brothers who communicated with their father in prison through the wrestling. Due to the remoteness of the geographical environment and the limitations of life itself, facing the sport of “wrestling”, it is not the success or failure that the world sees. In today's increasingly tense political situation on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, what kind of future do they see in the narrow gap?
This is a story about life’s choices, about difficulties and exits, about persistence and perseverance.
Director │ZI Han
Producer │WANG Hui
A film fighting against fate about the destructive influence on a woman suffering from domestic abuse. Twenty years ago, Yongzhi, living in a remote village in southern China, had to make a hard choice, to die or to escape from her violent husband.
Even harder, she had to choose who to take among her three kids. Eventually, she took her younger daughter travelling thousands of miles away to northern China to make a living by planting white asparagus, leaving her eldest daughter aged 11 and son aged 4 at home. The consequences of abandoning kids left Yongzhi with a festering sense of guilt, whilst her three kids, now all grownups, tried hard to reconnect and reconcile.
The film offers an intimate insight into a broken family, but also touches upon a much wider issue of the struggle between the identity of being a woman and being a mother.
Director │FENG Jing
Producer │MA Tian-jun
You are what you eat. Besides sustaining our life, food could also be a starting point to solve problems and to rebuild relationships.
The food crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic is only a start, however it might lead to changes. A group of food change-makers are changing their life and our future by saving food.
Two apricots from hometown, one went into dust bin, the other one went through a zero waste journey which spread the longing for family and the gratitude for nature to more people. To save food is to save ourselves.
Director │YUAN Nan-hsi
Producer │DENG Zhi-ying
Yang Yang is a very strange person.
She is deaf but she does not like to hang out with deaf people.
She is gentle to her friends and lover, but she does not know how to get along with her own family.
She is addicted to extreme sports which might kill her any time. Has she ever felt afraid?
She has been a poor world nomad with super low materialistic desires. How long could she continue her life like this in a society of consumerism and entertainment?
She often mentioned the long-live freedom. Is the so-called freedom so precious? When will she stop her journey?
There are so many mysteries in Yang Yang which drives my filming for four years.
I followed YangYang’s life journey, and this also guided me to the answer of my own life.
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